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Social Studies
Grade Three
The year-long global study includes a focus on specific countries around the world celebrating different cultures and societies. Through a variety of films, books, artifacts, music and art, students are taught to appreciate the cultural diversity and understand the differences in respect to their own lives. One country is focused on during the spring semester and a school-wide fair, led by the third grade, allows the entire student body to learn about and celebrate a different country. Countries studied: Japan, Ghana, Pakistan, Mexico, Egypt.
Grade Four
In Grade Four social studies, students study American History, including explorers, early settlements and the 19th century North American West. There is a major focus on map skills and the 50 United States and capital cities. Study skills such as fact-finding, outlining, note-taking, discussion techniques, and research are taught through a variety of units and simulations.
Grade Five
In Grade Five, students study Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and the Middle Ages. In looking at the classical world, the focus is on the growth of Athens in its golden age in the 5th century BC, and then on to the Roman Republic. In each case, the class studies each city-state's beginnings, rise to power, and eventual decline. In the medieval unit, students examine the breakdown of order in Western Europe following the fall of Rome, and then trace the gradual return to order through feudalism and the rise of the modern nation state. The class culminates with a look at the cultural and political inheritances of the classical and medieval ages that still resonate in our country today. In addition, the social studies curriculum allows for the development of academic skills such as note-taking, writing essays, participating in discussions, reading well, and writing research papers.
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